Police Shoot Purse Snatcher Who Was Holding Victim At Knife Point In Chicago Loop Just Hours Ago - Great Work!!
Chicago Breaking News Center is reporting:
A man was shot dead in the Loop and a Chicago police officer was wounded but saved by his bulletproof vest this afternoon, sources say. A man in his 50s was transported from 190 N. State Street and was pronounced dead at 1:09 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to a spokesman from the Cook County medical examiner's office.
The wounded cop was also taken to Northwestern but did not appear to be seriously injured, according to fire officials. The shooting occurred just before 1 p.m. outside the WLS-Ch. 7 studios near State and Randolph Streets when several officers witnessed a purse-snatching, according to an officer on the scene.
The suspect put a knife to a woman's neck and officers began chasing him, the officer said. A cop was wounded and then fired several times at the man, the officer at the scene said. Witnesses said they heard as many as four or five shots. Bobby Polk said he turned to see a man holding "a butcher knife" to a woman's throat. As many as five police officers were pursuing him. "The policeman shouted 'Stop, stop,' but he didn't and that's when [the officer] shot him," said Polk, 20.
The man was burly, had a white beard and looked disheveled, he said. Chicago Police News Affairs officer Laura Kubiak said calls of a shooting on the busy Loop street came in at 12:49 p.m.
The officer should be commended - The officer stopped this guy before he continued to be a threat to more citizens on the street. Great work CPD!!!!!
